November brings the opportunity to enjoy autumn breezes, falling leaves and leftover Halloween candy in the grocery store. By now, school is well underway, we are pulling out our winter clothing and thinking about buying a turkey. Halloween is past, Thanksgiving is on the way and then seemingly on its heels, Christmas. If you are Methodist, you start thinking about Charge Conference and End of Years Reports. There’s a lot of meeting,...

Psalm 142 (143) A prayer in time of trouble In the morning let me know your love, O Lord. Lord, listen to my prayer: in your faithfulness turn your ear to my pleading; in your justice, hear me. Do not judge your servant: nothing that lives can justify itself before you. The enemy has hounded my spirit, he has crushed my life to the ground, he has shut me in darkness, like the dead of long ago. So my spirit trembles within...

What does it mean to be the church? Some people might think immediately of a building, the property on which the building sits or just the sanctuary. Not a bad answer and one you would get from the dictionary, but based on the Bible, the church isn’t our property or building. We can get a clue of what church is and is meant to be by looking at Acts 2:42-47: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the...